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( hrwianity Bubunic Plague in Honolulu Cotnmuaton on (..hinatown Bubonic Plague Re-appears Kxperl ' Report of Special Samiai y oinmitte'* Fighting I'estilence with Fire The Boer War LateM News from Pitt aim Island Boys' Industrial lul> Houne Prohibition Petition to Congress! Death of Hon I>. H. Hitchcock Boer Cruelty to Natives Our Duty to the Philippineii The Khalifa and A-umaldo Want- lv Re-lore MoiMn hy Hum. n<- Officer M rs. Craft Rapitl Transit Work in Progreu Rtc >rd of Events Shippins New*, etc Hawaiian*Board Sat h*' New Building I'ir jeered New Hotel * Hackfeld Building page 1 1 1 M 2 2 3 3J 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 •"> ■ J> 0 7 8 t* s The End of the Century. His " Holiness," Pope Leo XIII. has assumed to declare that the nineteenth Century ends with the last day of the year 1899. He does this in the face of what is generally understood to be the conclusion of the learned that the century does not end untill the close of 1900. It has not been understood that the Pope claims authority to decide such a question or that it was a subject coming within the scope of his spiritual jurisdiction. Even those who acknowledge his spiritual supremacy, will probably feel at liberty to contradict his decision upon a question of chronology. It seems likely that the old gentlemen was anxious to see the twentieth century before he died, and was not going to take any chances by waiting another year. That the new century does not begin until 1901, however, is a proposition which goes very much against what ordinary people would call their common sense. It may be said to be an " academic " conclusion, which cannot possibly meet with popular acceptance, although the reasons for it must be ad mitted to be plausible. We have not space to discuss those reasons here. It is substantially a question of whether in counting the years we are using cardinal or ordinal numbers. Is this the year 1900, or is it only the nineteen-hundredth year ? The learned men say the latter, JANUARY, 1900. while most people are sure to hold the to consider to-day as belonging to the new century. Accordingly we propose to treat it in the popular view, not because the Pope says so, but because every body feels that when we begin to count the nineteen-hundreds, we are done with the old century. former, and A New Century Begun. Respectfully begging then the pardon of the learned academics, we go on like the Pope, to rejoice in the birth of another hundred years, Century the Twentieth. The nineteenth century, so long our boast and pride as the last and grandest of the ages, is now relegated to the Past, which we count so inferior. It is in its turn a " back number." The Twentieth Century is now to be our boast, and contains our hopes and expectations. Perhaps what it produces will disappoint and depress ; perhaps it will bring forth benefits to mankind still more outrivalling previous conception than did the blessings of the favored Nineteenth. The writer well remembers when there were no locomotives, no ocean steamers, no friction matches, no photographs, no ice machines, no canned goods, no telephones, no telegraph wires, no dynamos or electric motors, no anaesthetics, no aseptic surgery. Probably by 1970, the aged men will count over to their children a longer list of more wonderful inventions, which will cast our present luxuries of life far into the shade. We can make only the crudest guesses at what future science will do for the well being of mankind. But all these material improvements will work little good for mankind apart from moral advance and spiritual culture. Increased skill and wealth production may derange society and fill it with op pression and hatred. Only the sway of Christ and his love can make such things a blessing. What then shall the twentieth century bring forth of this highest and vital good for suffering mankind ? Shall men learn to love one another as brothers in Christ ? Shall they come to seek blessing and joy for each other as children of one father ? God alone knows what brighter day may be drawing near, or what darker days may intervene. The past course of God's Providence in the world, and the accelerating progress of his gospel among mankind, seem to justify an ardent hope that the complete triumph of our Lord's Kingdom on earth is not very far distant. Possibly this century may witness that triumph. But Number 1 it is not likely to arrive without violent struggles, and disastrous conflicts. Satan is not to be cast out peaceably. God only knows what is before the world in these coming years. May the youth who are coming forward to carry on the affairs of this twentieth century be endued with faith an d courage, and Divine strength, to give good account of themselves in the coming warfare. In that Hawaii is probably to bear some central and prominent part. May our coming young Christians better the work of the fathers ! Mrs. Mary E. Logan. The many friends of Mrs. Mary E. Logan will be pained to hear of her death, which occurred at Creston, Ohio, in the home of her sister. Mrs. Logan and her husband were the pioneer missionaries to Kuk, in the Caroline Islands. Since her husband's death on that island she has had two periods of valuable service there. On the last trip of the Morning Star she was found suffering from a cancer, and was brought to Honolulu on a special voyage on her account. She reached this port in July this year, and went lo Buffalo, N. V., to be under the surgeon's knife. For a time the success of the operation seemed assured ; but her strength failed, and now she has gone to her crown of faithfulness—one of the noblest women, and one of the best of missionaries.— The Pacific. Mrs. Logan was intimately known in Honolulu, and greatly beloved. Her adopted daughter Beulah is laboring as a missionary at Ruk, and has been a chief dependence there of Rev. Mr. Stimson as interpreter to the natives while he was learning the language. We are deeply interested to learn that Mrs. Logan's manly and capable son Arthur is likely to proceed to his parents' field of labor, having married a daughter of Rev. Mr. Price, of the Ruk mission, who is now in the East, raising means for the extension of Ihe work to the islands beyond. Bishop Willis is reported as saying that "on April last I clearly stated that my tenure of office will continue until the House of Bishops in America is ready to consecrate a bishop to succeed me. Dr. Potter's visit had nothing whatever to do with this question. It was made for the purpose obtaining direct informa- �2 THE FRIEND. A Great Student Fraternity. The college department this week and next is especially devoted to one of the most remarkable movements in the his- tory of education. It is only twentyYoung Men's two years since the college Christian Association came into being. In those twenty-two yeais more than three hundred men have been influenced by the movement to enter the ministry, and an army of lay-workers have been trained for places in the church. The American and Canadian Student Young Men's Christian Association is the largest student organization in the world. It unites six hundred societies in institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada, with a combined membership of between thirty-three and thirty-four thousand young men. During the past year there were on an average every week 4210 men and women students in mission classes, while already more than fourteen hundred student volunteers have sailed for foreign lands. Not less than twelve thousand men were in voluntary Bible classes last year studying courses which demanded systematic and devotional daily study. Best of all, over thirty thousand men have been won to know Jesus Christ as their King, since the inception of the move ment, and fully three thousand of this number during the past year. The main purposes of the movement are : to lead students to become intelligent and loyal disciples of Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord ; to help students in the battle with the many and subtle temptations which beset them in modern college life; to build up strong Christian faith and symmetrical Christian character; to train students to do organized Christian work, to place upon students a burden of responsibility for the extension and upbuilding of the kingdom of Christ throughout the world, and to influence them to place their lives where they can best serve their generation. The movement has entered more than 260 colleges and universities, and 130 preparatory and fitting schools. It has deeply influeuced Normal School life, as is shown in a recent report to the National Teachers' Association. It also occupies an important place in more than fifty medical, dental and pharmaceutical colleges. Students in institutions of this class are the most neglected and the most fiercely tempted of all who are engaged in professional study; and moreover, as professional men they must wield an immense influence for good or for evil. The importance of Association work among them is therefore incalculably great. The Association has at last entered our National Naval and Military Academies, enrolling a majority of the students in its membership. It has been adapted to the needs of our Indian and colored schools, and already has a foothold in more than fifty of the latter. It is a sig niflcant fact that the organization has proved to be of exceptional utility in theological schools. Although the first Seminary Association was organized but two years ago, there are already over three thousand members of this branch in seminaries of eighteen different denominations. From this great body of students comes the joyful refutation of the claim so persistently made of late years that the Christian Church is declining. Among the most hopeful class of our population it is making rapid advance. In the years preceding this movement 90 per cent, of our college men were outside of the church; now more than 40 per cent, of students in the institutions where these associations exist are members of evangelical churches. In 1895 the Student Association of North America became a part of the World Student Christian Federation, which unites all Christian student move ments in the world, and includes in its membership more than fifty-five thousand students and professors. Not an end in itself, the possibilities of an organization which unites the Christian forces of the student world are almost boundless. No religious movement of our time has a stronger or better-founded claim upon the interest and the prayers of the church at large.—N. Y. Evan- gelist. Buddhism vs. Christianity. Dr. M. L. Gordon of Japan, commenting in The Congregationalist upon a paper read at the Boston Council by Dr. C. R. Brown, writes thus : " In a fairly wide reading of discussions of this subject I know of no finer and stronger statement of the difference between Christianity and Buddhism than this : " Buddhist salvation means the lopping off of human interest and desire until peace is found in a sort of eternal swoon, where definite personality is either surrendered or so overborne by the ocean of life in which it floats as to be no longer capable of self knowledge or selfdirection. Nowhere outside our own faith do we find the clear offer of a salvation which insuies a moral personality enriched and ennobled according to the measure of the stature of full manhood of Christ Jesus." [January, 1900. aground declined the aid of the pilot who, however, at once summoned the tug. A captain is fool hardy who ventures to attempt the entrance of this harbor without a pilot. Bubonic Plague in Honolulu. The dread enemy Bubonic Plague has been in our city, but has disappeared. On the night of December 12th a clerk in a leading wholesale Chinese store died of what is believed to be that disease. Another case of a Gilbert Islander occurred the next day. These two cases were considered undoubted. Three other cases of Chinamen on the 13th proved rapidly fatal, but were finally pronounced not bubonic. No other cases than the first two have been found. The medical fraternity are nearly unanimous as to the nature of the disease, although a few express doubt. Stringent measures were at once taken by the Board of Health, headed by Mr. Cooper. Chinatown where the disease appeared was rapidly quarantined for a week under a strong military guard. The crowded slums of that district were carefully searched, cleansed, and disinfected as far as possible, although the condition of many cesspools was impossible at once to remedy. The Council of State instantly appropriated $2.'),000 to meet the emergency. A strict quarantine was enforced upon all coasters going to the other islands. That continued also one week. Great alarm naturally pervaded the community, although nothing like panic occurred. The occupants of the quarantined district submitted quietly to the very great inconvenience, although they were more than 5,000 in number, and many of them had to be supplied with food at public expense. The cholera experience of 1895, and the rapid stamping out of that pestilence by stringent measures, led all to desire equal thoroughness at this time. No clue has been found to the way in which the victims became infected. It is conjectured to have been by means of Chinese freight from Hongkong. There has been a tendency to impute blame to theBoard of Health for not having enforced the statutes enabling them to compel owners of insanitary and overcrowded tenanents to put their premises in proper condition. It would seem that owners collecting exorbitant rents have permitted their premises to fill up with vile shacks and incredibly foul cesspools. It appears probable that due pressure will now be put upon these covetous and selfish owners, whose names we do not know, but whose actions justify our ad- The steamship Algoa in this port last week, is said to be the largest merchant ship ever in the Pacific. She is 475 feet long, and carried 11,000 tons of freight. Her first act was to run a- jectives. ground at the entrance of the harbor, The old text seems to be applicable : fortunately on the windward side. The " When thy judgments are in the earth, tug Eleu soon pulled her off. Very the inhabitants of the world will learn, singularly the captain, even whe n righteousness." Isaiah 26 :9. �THE FRIENB. Expert Commission on Chinatown. Mr. Edwards, Sanitary Engineer. Mr. C. B. Ripley, Architect. Mr. Geo. R. Carter, Business man. Such is the membership of the Special Commission to investigate conditions in Chinatown and recommend changes in ithe interest of sanitation of that district. They are to report to the B'>ard of Health. The principal alterations believed to be demanded without delay are thus described: Extend Chaplain lane, which now ends at Nuuanu street, be ginning at Fort, on through to the stream ; carry Kekaulike street on to Beretania ; carry Maunakea on to Kukui; carry Smith (Konia) on to Kukui; cut a new street through the Kamaukapili church block from Nuuanu street to the stream. It is calculated that the expense of making the street changes will be very heavy. Many of the changes relating to buildings, drainage, etc., must be made at the expense of property holders. Bubonic Plague Re-appears. On the 2Gth, President Cooper of the Board of Health officially notified the foreign Consuls that "since my report of Dec 22d, three cas-;s of death fr.m bubonic plague have been reported to the Two Chinamen Board of Health." died on the 24th and 25th. On the 23d Ethel Johnson died, and was proved to be a case of plague although she had been pronounced ill from other causes. On the 27th, two more deaths occurred in Chinatown, and that district was again quarantined during the night. The previous quarantine of Inter island vessels was renewed on the 26th, and Honolulu was officially declared an infected port. This is a grievous condition of things. It is calling forth every energy of the Board of Health. The disease is still sporadic, but liable to become epidemic. It is probable that it will be necessary to revive the twice-aday inspection of all rooms and persons in the city which so effectually subdued the cholera here in 1895. Tne Chinese are persistently concealing their sick. This appears to be from fear of cremation which has been the fate of every plague-corpse here so far. It should be the trustful and urgent supplication of Christian people that our officials and citizens may be guided and Divinely sustained in wise and efficient action to remove this pestilence. 3 Vol. 58, No. I.] Your commissioners find a terribly 200 feet frontage of stores on the corner congested district in a wretched sanitary of Maunakea and Pauahi streets. Most condition. We believe a detailed repon of the condition found, wilh the names of the owners of the property, would be a revelation to the community. We are not surprised at the indigna tion expressed when a citizen finds he is living in a community where fresh meat is exposed for sale in shops within a few feet of which are cesspools reeking with filth and vermin, from which come clouds of flies; where restaurants have cesspools with no other covering than the kitchen floors, into which cockroachts crowd by the thousands after a night of foraging over tables and dishes; where poultry is kept huddled for weeks in small coops one above the other; where poi is manufactured, and sold in shops sour with fermented slime; where kitchens are built next to foul-smelling privies, and so arranged that a ray of light never enters them; where sinks are maintained with long, leaking drains; where cesspools and privy vaults are crowded together or combined and left unopened year after year to saturate the ground with filth and germs; where cesspools are often without ventilation of any kind excepting the crevices of the floors above or perhaps a rickety wooden vtnt ending within two feet of a sleeping-apartment window, which is overcrowded at night with occupants, and where the ground is often without drainage, so that the seepage from the surroundings accumulates and becomes stagnant. All this is now certain to be remedied, but with some unavoidable delay. Meantime we are glad to note that the daily inspection of every house and person in the city has been inaugurated in the same manner as so quickly stamped out the cholera in 1895. Only this measure can prevent the concealment of cases of the Plague which will multiply infection. This measure gives the brightest hope of anything that has yet been done to eradicate the pes- tilence. Fighting Pestilence with Fire. Three new cases of Plague appeared on the 31st ult., and two more on New Years' day. All were fatal, as have been the previous cases. As a result, the Board of Health have adopted a better and more severe policy than that of quarantining the whole of the chief Report of Special Sanitary Committee. infected district Chinatown, and are destroying by fire the filthy tenements where the disease has appeared. On and Ripley Messrs. Carter, Edwards 31st, a row of old stores and tenethe a to the Govhave made lengthy report ments on Nuuanu streets were burned, ernment, embodying many recommend- occupying frontage of 137 feet on the ations. The following graphic state- street, and containing 85 occupants. On the Ist, an ther bonfire was made of ments is made: of the valuable goods were removed to be fumigated. The occupants, Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiians were taken to a new Quarantine station at Kakaako, where they will be supplied and fed. Probably damages will be claimed by the owners of the buildings. Probably none will be paid. The public health would in any case have required the disuse of the buildings with total loss of income from them. Moreover, the property will be worth much more after being burned off, than it was before. It is in contemplation to destroy by fire the entire block bounded by Beretania, Nuuanu, Pauahi and Smith streets. This covers about two acres, and contains over two thousand people, a most criminal degree of crowding. Most of the buildings are unspeakably filthy. It will be a serious problem to care for these 2000 people in quarantine. The Board of Health are grappling with great difficulties. Happily they have been able to call to their aid the great organizing and directing ability of Lorrin A. Thurston, whose prssence on the Board gives assurance of efficient dealing with the enemy. The passengers by the Australia on the 26th. left in a cheerless way. As precautions against carrying infection from plague, no extra baggage was allowed. No leis or flower-wreaths were allowed on board. No visitors were allowed on the ship. A rigid quarantine will no doubt be imposed on the steamer and passengers after reaching San Francisco. These precautions may shorten it. Tha Boer War. The year closes with the reek and thunder ofbattle raging fiercely in South Africa, and the war spirit burning high and strong among Englishmen with the check given to their forces by the doughty Boers all along the advancing British lines. The world looks on in wonderThis is a sad and portentous opening of the new century. We are not prepared to say that this war had sufficient cause, nor yet that it could have been avoided. God grant that good may come out of this apparent evil, and the wrecking hurricane of war be succeeded by better days than before. Meantime on both sides, as in the American Civil war, the lofty virtues of patriotism and courage are being grandly exhibited. There are some elements in the struggle which render the result doubtful and the future mysterious. We must leave it to the Ruler of the nations, believing that He will overrule all for the forwarding of His Son's kingdom of justice and peace. �4 [January, 1900. THE FRIEND. Latest News from Pitcairn Island. The first news received for a longtime from Pitcairn Island—a lonely home in the South Pacific Ocean of the descendants of the mutineers of the famous ship Bounty—was brought to this port yesterday by Capt. Collins, of the British ship Centurion, which has just arrived from Shanghai via Iquique. It is seldom that the island is sighted, as it is but two and a quarter miles long, a mile and a half wide, and lies out of the beaten track of ships. There are at present 130 per sons on the island, nearly all of whom are women, the men and boys as a rule having sought work on passing vesse Is or whalers. Those left in the male line are principally old men. Nearly all are descendants from the mutineers of the ship Bounty, who landed there in 1789. According to Captain Collins, nobody on the island indulges in intoxicants, tobacco or profanity. There are no cattle on this lonely spot, but goats are plentiful. The main paths are attractively bordered with orange groves and palmtrees. Captain Collins states that two boat loads of the natives boarded his vessel in August while on her way here, a sharp lookout being always kept for sailing craft which pass there. The boats were loaded down with bananas, oranges, fruit and chickens for the officers and crew ol the Centurion. Captain Collins gave them what he could spare from his vessel. What they especially desired was a harmonium, which he could not give them. The Pitcairners formerly belonged to the Anglican Church, but recently have become converts to the belief of the Seventh Day Adventists, through the efforts of a missionary sent there from San Francisco. P. C. Advertiser. — Boys' Industrial Club House. The Boys' Brigade have secured a site for a two-story club house near the depot through the kindness of the Railway Company. Three dozen sets of carpenters' tools have been ordered, and instructors provided. The best boys of the four clubs in Honolulu will be selected for instruction. The military basis of the organization furnishes machinery for maintaining discipline. These are street boys being redeemed from loafing and gambling. Several leading young men are managing the finances. Mr. Armstrong Smith takes a prominent part in the work of the en tertainment. There will be competitive athletic sports and a monthly battalion drill. All this is first class humanitarian work. Prohibition Petition to Congress. Petitions addressed to Congress are now in circulation among the Hawaiian churches, asking for insertion into the organic law of the Territory of Hawaii, of provisions prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, gambling, and the importation and sale of opium. It is anticipated that a very large number of names of native Hawaiians will be appended to these petia tions which are intended as demonstration of native sentiment. The following committee is in charge of the movement: Rev. O. H. Gulick, Rev. H. H. Parker, Rev. E. S. Timo teo, J. Leadingham, T. Richards, H. E. Coleman and Rev. Geo. L. Pearson. Of course no one can expect that Congress will attempt to prohibit intoxicants in Hawaii; but at least the moral force of the demonstration made will be of value. Death of Hon. David H. Hitchcock. After several years of declining health, at the age of 68, this old friend has passed on to the other shore. Judge Hitchcock's early home was at Molokai, where his father was one of the most successful of the early missionaries. For more than forty years, Mr. Hitchcock has resided at Hilo, where his two brothers subsequently joined him, the three making a prominent element in Hilo society. Mr. Hitchcock was an active and genial man, popular alike with natives and foreigners. He had occupied many public positions of honor and trust. Two sons and two daughters survive their parents, as well as many grandchildren. Boer Cruelty to Natives. The Congregationalist makes the statement given below. Of course such facts are not decisive of the merits of the case between the Boers and the British, but may have much weight. The tenor of the letters in British religious journals from Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian clergymen in south Africa is decidedly adverse to the Boers. Rev. Dr. Stewart, moderator of the Free Church of Scotland Assem bly, and for thirty odd years a missionary in Central and South Africa, says in the British Weekly that " the issue is much wider. It is not a question of the franchise in the Transvaal—that is a fragment of the question ; nor merely of monopolies, oppressive as they are—that is also a fragment. It is a question of the very fundamental principles on which a government shall be carried on, and whether any share at all shall be given to those who live under that government, of political and municipal life, and whether equity and justice can be expected. It is a question of the independ ance of the judges of the land against executive interference, as took place three years ago. It is not so much, or " mainly, a question of race supremacy as the encounter of entirely different policies —affecting the liberty of both black and white, and which have been, and will continue to be, in opposition till one of them is entirely driven from the field." Our Duty to the Philippines. PRESIDENT J. H. BARROWS. BY students of All history know that liberty cannot be preserved without order. Law and order are impossible without intelligence, obedience, selfcontrol and public spirit. The sixty tribes of the Eastern archipelago never gained these things from the centuries of Spanish dominion. Not only are they not a nation, but they can never become a nation except through such political and moral agencies as ennobled and unified the thirteen colonies. They are now a congeries of hostile communities in various grades of development, demoralized not only by barbarism, but by long years of selfish tyranny practiced by a government essentially hostile to the fundamental ideas of free and self-governing nations. To apply without restriction all of briliant generalities to peoJefferson's ples of this sort is the height of unpractical doctrinairism and the depth of political foolishness. Our fathers never thought of practicing any such perversion of their own doctrines. The sturdy common sense of the American people (let us be grateful for it) has considered the complicated Philippine problem in the light of the facts. Regretting the neccessity of putting down the misguided insurrectionists, as they regretted the necessity of putting down rebellion in Virginia or anarchy in Chicago, the people are resolute in their purpose to establish peace and freedom under the flag. They intend that that flag shall mean civil and religious liberty, order, good government, enlightenment, social and industrial progress, and such a measure of ultimate self-government as the Malay peoples may be trained to exercise with wisdom and success. The steamer Pathfinder, of the U. S. Geodetic and Coast Survey, is making Honolulu her present head-quarters. She is now engaged in surveying the harbor of Kahului and its vicinity. She will then survey Hilo harbor. The next summer she will spend at the Aleutian Islands. She is a new 14-knot ship of 875 tons. It is proposed to mount for display abroad a good selection of the richly variegated fish, mostly of small size, which abound in Hawaiian waters, and are commonly seen at our fish-market. Their coloring is as marvellous as that of tiger-lilies or Argus cowries. �THE FRIEND. 5 Vol. 58, No. 1. ] Humane Officer Mrs. Craft. The Khalifa and Aguinaldo. There was a near coincidence in time between American victories in the Spanish war and the grand British victory at Omdurman. Now, some sixteen months later, come simultaneonsly the announcements that the Mahdi Khalifa Abdulla has been slain with his Emirs, and that the insurgent Aguinaldo is entirely broken up with his army. Now the way is open for free and beneficent govern ment both in the Soudan and the Philippines. In each the forces of anarchy and violence are destroyed. In each a beneficent and wise Power is establishing justice, order and prosperity. Wants to Restore Monarchy. A Mr. Edgar Caypless, of whom we know nothing, has gone from here to Washington as an advocate of the Royalist party. He denounces President Dole as follows : "As President of the Cabinet' of the Hawaiian Government, he sanctioned what was promulgated as the new oath " to be subscribed by American voters on the islands which required, in its operation, that they should renounce their allegiance to the United States ; and fnrther, by this oath (without the asking of which he would disfranchise us all) we must barter away that God given right which man loves next to his mother, the right of thinking for one's self; for says this death-to-manhood decreeing oath ;" I do solemnly swear that I will not either directly or indirectly encourage or assist in the restoration or establishment of a monarchical form of government*in the Hawaiian Islands." In other words one, it was intended by this subtle oath, must swear to never uplift his hand or raise his voice against the outrages upon the aboriginal Hawaiians, which must, sooner or later, be righted, and that by the American people. In establishing a republic here in place of monarchy, it was obviously indispenssble that all who participated in the government must be pledged not to go back and support monarchy. But what seems curious herein is Mr. Caypless' insistence that the American people must right the alleged outrage upon the Hawaiians, apparently by restoring the monarchy! This is funny. Mr. Bob Wilcox and Mr. Caypless make an amusing team of Royalist agents at Washington. ' " and channels of this group.—Reception on the Hanccck by Col. McClernand, of Honolulu has been much favored for the 44th Regiment—a brilliant society several years by the labors of Mrs. event. Helen Wilder Craft, who is the head 3rd—Arrival of Brigadier-General and executive officer of the Honolulu Funston on the Indiiuii,, en route for Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to service again in Manila. As the vessel Animals. She has worked in a pecu- docked, many citizens and officers from liarly efficient manner and with a quiet other transports called, and were deenthusiasm due to benevolence, being lighted to do him honor. possessed of a handsome income of her 4th—F. J. Cross, the expert electrician, own. Court records for 1899 show 44 gave an able lecture at the Y. M. C. A. arrests made by her personally or at on wireless telegraphy before an interher instigation. Fully ninety per cent ested audience. were convicted, showing caution in her 6th—Work for sinking two artesian action. The reform in the treatment of animals is marked, and cases of abuse wells for the Kalihi supply station at last begun.—Wray Taylor's concert at Kauare growing fewer. makapili for the benefit of the lepers' Christmas fund drew a full house, and Transit Work in Progress. Rapid proved an artistic and financial success. Heavy foundations are now being laid for the Electric Power Houses and car shops of the Rapid Transit Co. Manager Ballentyne expects to have ten miles of road in active operation by the end of 1900, and sixteen more in six months later. Power will be transmitted entirely by trollies. Storage batteries are not available, because they are too heavy to carry over steep grades. The works are located on the former premises of Mrs. C. B. Damon on Beretania and Alapai streets. Nineteen large cases of blanks have been received here from Washington for the purpose of taking the census of Hawaii next year. These are franked by mail from Washington. The old Tramway Co. are understood to intend replacing their mules by electric power, and some collision between the two companies seems not unlikely, as indeed has already begun. The new Dredge of the Oahu Railway is actively at work in deepening the harbor in front of the railway coal warf and up towards the King street bridge to a depth of 26 feet. This promises soon to bring some relief to the present and increasing congestion of the harbor. Our local shipping notices contain a list of 50 sailing vessels at Newcastle, Australia, chartered for Hawaiian ports. 28 of them are American. This is a huge fleet of colliers. It corresponds to our fleets of steamers, and to our multiTo illustrate the thoroughness of the tude of pumping engines on plantations. segregation of lepers in Hawaii, it may But what is Honolulu to do for harborbe noted that in the exhaustive search room until Pearl Harbor is opened ? of all the premises in Chinatown, including a population of many hundred Hawaiians, only one leprous person was found, who was carefully secreted. Of course there are probably a few incipient Dec. 2d—Steamer Pathfinder, of the cases of leprosy at large in which the and Geodetic survey service, aras Coast disease has not become conspicuous, survey work on the coast ports months. rives for does a few in i t generally RECORD OF EVENTS. 7th—The schooner Hiram Bingham arrives from San Francisco en route to her mission work in the Gilbert and Caroline Islands. Bth—At the Lahaina term of Court, Yong Lock Nee plead guilty to murder in the second degree for killing one Lee See at Kamaole several months ago.— Three sudden deaths among the Claudine's crew within a short time, without apparent ailment, arouse suspicions of kahunaism. 10th—Inter-island steamer Kilohaiia runs ashore at Lahaina and may become a total loss. 11th—An employment office to furnish house help is advocated, as a Honolulu need, for the forty-eleventh " time.— Prof. Alexander read an essay before the Social Science Club on the Population question of France. 12th—Sudden death of the Chinese book-keeper of Wing Wo Tai, Nuuanu street, reveals the presence of bubonic plague in this city. Another case is found on Maunakea street. The Board of Health act promptly and establish quarantine; volunteer inspectors are called for, and the National Guard are called to duty to assist the police in enforcing observance of all quarantine regulations in the prescribed district. Council of State met and appropriated $25,000 for the extraordinary needs of the Board of Health. 13th—Death of Capt. Harry English, a well-known water front character, aged nearly eighty years.—Chamber of Commerce meets and tenders its services to the Government in the work of public safety against the outbreak of plague. 15th—A reported "another case" in the death of a native woman in Chinatown '' proves to be from other causes. —The Board of Health erects a crematory of the quarantine station.—At the deferred annual meeting of the Library Association, the old board of officers were re-elected. " " �16th—Death at Hilo, on 12th instant, of D. H. Hitchcock, si., a prominent citizen long identified with Hilo's progress, aged 67 years.. 18th—Ethel Johnson, a late pu,)il of the High School, living in the Iwilei district, is stricken down and reported as a suspicious case." 19th—Founder's Day ai X imehameha Schools duly observed ; Hon. W. F. Allen delivered the address.-- (Quarantine in Chinatown raised. No new or posi tive developments in the Ethel Johnson case. —Gounod's "Faust," by the Boston Lyric Company, wilh Mrs. Annis Mon tague Turner as Marguerite, was given at the Opera House with marked success, and the occasion drew out one of the largest and most brilliant audiences of the seas n. 20th—The Coptic, last night, and the Australia, this a m., bring large list of passengers, including a number of prominent kamaainas. 25th—Two new suspicious cases of plague are discovered on opposite sides of town; premises are quarantined and gnards re established. 26th—The Australia departs subject to the gloom of quarantine ; no one but outgoing passengers being permitted aboard, and nothing but their personal effects taken. 27th —Investigation in one of the plague cases recently reported lesults in the re establishment of quarantine, all Chinatown being put under guard, and a more rigid house-to house inspection enjoined. The prompt action of the Board during the night caught many house servants in the infected district ; hence, much derangement of hotel, restaurant and household regularity followed. —Steamer Claud int conies in collision with barkentine Wm. Carson, coal-laden from Newcastle, in the Oahu channel, causing serious damage. The steamer took all hands off the vessel and returned to put them ashore here and report the mishap, then continued her voyage. Subsequently the wreck was taken hold of by tugs and brought to an anchorage off port awaiting a favorable opportunity to risk bringing it into the harbor lest it sink in the passage and block the channel. " 28th—Two more plague native boy and Chinese. Janury,1900. THE FRIEND. 6 cases ; a 29th A Portuguese, living at Pauoa, delivers himself up to the authorities for the accidental shooting of a young lad. Board of Health meets to hear report of special sanitary committee as to the result of their labors in the Chinatown district, with recommendations of alleviating existing evils. 30th—Important evening meeting of the Board, at which more vigorous measures for coping with the situation l>l. Best hdala, Knoa, from nitrate posts, were adopted, anil infected sections were '24 Rt llr ss Warrlnmo, Phillips, from Vancsttw, to sh Kowldon, Chamhci sin, from Liverpool. 111 condemned, the removed patient to be An l.k s (.' Allen, Johnson, frost baa Francisco. hospital or morgue other occupants to \rn sh s Nanaiasj, a Clara, I indborg, Ir hum Geo C Perkins, Macs, from Hilo. quaFan tine quarters provided, and the '.li Am U S trans Flintshire, tlwycr, from Sen F.ancisco, Am sch Allan A., Ivsrscn, t I .in. k.i. premises and belongings burned. ■;7 Jap ss America Maru, lloing, from San Francisco. Am bgj l> Sprockets, Chri tiansen, from San Francisco. 31st—Three deaths occur to day. One llr lik Kinfatms, I righ Liverpool. at .'*'_>7 I 4 Nuuanu street decides the au- M Am sh label Howes, from I'acoma. Car on, riil/. from Newcastle, thorities for heroic measures. The agent 29 Am sell Wm Han bk l< PRithet, Hacphail. from San Fran, iscu. of the property is notified, as also all Am l>kt Klrkit.it. ( nilii, tiom Port <inml,le. .'in Am sch w II Smith, Smith, firm Tsrnnss 3_> J to -133 Nuuanu tenants from No. A I. II li Band sen, Oiaen, from Santtsa. street, ordered to vacate the premises at :i\ Jap ss Htmgkona Maru, Kilmer, f Yokohama once, with certain of their stocks of departures. goods. Place for the inmates (eightyDeb. 1 llrss Port Stevens, Whitehead, for Manila. Range was made the Rifle preat five) *2 lap SS Yorilihna Main, ,\l ikalnuia, for Yokohama. mises, Kakaako, and the Fire Depart :i I'AmS l,k Skagit, Reich, for Hon Townsend. trans Hancock, Strove, for Manila. mtnt brought into service to protect 11l sh Atiergeldio, Murray, tor San Kran, i-eo. lap ss Mam, Allen, foi Yokohama. at 3 about p.m. .'■ la), Nippon adjoining property, and \nitica M.iin, CfOtngi lor San Francisco, Jap ss Tuyo Maru, Sakai, lor Vi toriathe several buildings were fired and Aloha, Pry, for v an Kiarni.ro. burned down. This condemned section (i IAm-, sell nans Indiana.Marie, f r Manila. took in the old " Eden " premises adU S Iran. M I',nil, lor .Manila. U Straus link.- of Fyfe, Milne,far Manila. joining F. VV. Damon's Mill's Institute, Am Alameda, yon Gterendorp, lor Sydney. 7 I'.r as Carmarthenshire, Hirch, for San Diegu 1,. except the upper corner occupied by s i; s ti.,ns Luronne, Conradi, for Manila. Ahlo. —Photographer Davey gets his Am ss .M.i.i|ios.i. Hayward, lor San Kran, iseo. likr WII I'mi.hi.l. Nils for San Francisco. hand badly burned in taking a flash n Am Has -li Hat, Isms, Rice, to, Port Angeles. Am li light picture in one of the Chinese dens. i .I. nil.ile. lohtison, for Port Townsend. 11 S trans Columbia, Oobson, for Maiila. V S trans ll.illiei Vostok, I'.ri, kson, for Manila. and new cenI—New Year the Jan. t" \m survct Pathfinder, Perkins, for Kahului. tury are welcomed in with the greatest 14—U S trans Carlisle City, Aitken, for Yokohama trans Sherman, lor Manila. din of steam whistles, bells and bombs I". I'AmS liktne S N Castle, Hubbard, for San Francisco. Hi V >s trans Warren, Man. rot Manila. ever heard in this country. ; > < ss ss s. ss llr lik Dominion, Rodd, for Royal Roada, I! S Irani Centennial, r agles, for San Francisco. Am lik Amelia, Wilier, for PortTownsend. ri I'.r ss Biomenfonlein, Hlenoch, for Seattle. •!» lir ss Ceptii. Rinder, fm Yokohama. llr ss torangi, Hay, for Victoria. Am lik Allien, loiihtlis. fm San Ki.m, is, ~. 22 llr ss Oaelii Finch, lor San Prancbco. for Royal Roada I'.r sh Rrrol, Hendera Am sell l-.stlier Buhne, Anderson, for Knirekn. Am li Hiram Bingham, Walkup, for South Seas. 2:1 lit lik Cardigan Castle, Goulding, for Newcastle, "24 llr ss Wan inn in, Phillips, for ihe Colonies, .'i Am as Victoria, Ranton for Manila. 211 Am ss Au Italia, Lawless, f.,t San lian. is, o. tl An i.kine Planter, McNeil, fm Sm, Francisco. US lap ss Am, Ma,ir, Going, for Yokohama. '2'.)—lh ss Algoa, Hansboeoiigh, for Sen Frarectaco. is Marine Journal. POST OF HONOLULU, ARRIVALS. , Br c* AU-rKi.-l.lh-. Murray, from Vokuhanuv Am lik Mohii in, ateI ley, from San Fram w... W H In'mood, Wilson, from San Kran i bkt Am MUn from San KtantUca U ii iiiin-. Duke of Fyfe,(mulu.iik* Newcastle, Castle, Cardigan lir lik In.in l,iv«-i| I, Id lik County of Merioneth, Davis,*"""» Dec. 1 ( , JANUARY. . s, „,., lik Paul IsenhttTg, Km---, lm New. .i-.il. .m lyii< S tram Ohio, Hoggs, from San Pram iaco. |apM Nippon Maru, Allen* from San Franciaco. Am bit Alden Besae, Potter, from San Frarwisco. BIRTHS. :. I' s timtw Indiana, Moi i, from San Fram i-*o, Yokohama. tap a. America Mani, (nmig. from(run Koloa, Kauai, Dec.6, 1899, to the wife of J. CGALL—At l*ort Townsend. Cooka, lenhallow, ti.ill, a daughter. Am scli Alice B l.r •.-. i .iiiii.uiU n-liiir, Rindluss, from Yokohama, THOMPSON On Dei. Huh, ta tha »if<- of Alex. I>Fram is. a. I (, nans Wy< field, t artmer, from San ThuinpaOH, a son. Maw m!i N< a, Wmsbarth, from I ayaan ItJand, Me.-, York. MOOKK At Hilo. Hawaii, Dec. IS, IMS!), loth,- wife of h, from New 0 AmbkOnaway, Or. anil Mrs \V. 1.. Moore, a daughter. Am -. li Column a, Sprague, from Aberdeen. Otereitdorp, from San FnmcUco. MORSE At Honolulu, Dacember tl, to the wife of 8. & Am ss Alaim-.1.i, Am bktne Amelia, Wilier, from Porl Blakeley. Marat, t«in daughtara. 7 Am teh Brie, Kooa, from Seattle. Am miss m Ii Hiram Bingham, Walk up, fm S Francisco. Kureka. Am s.li Jessie Minor. Wnkoey fr MARRIAGES. Am bktne S (1 Wilder, |a< k -m, from San Iran, is, o. i, fr Dec.6, by the Ret. G, Am l»k It P Clancy. ["I I'm uaaa. ARKNS—ARKNS—In Honolulu 1,. I'i.o.un, A. I'. .Mm lis lo Miss ILillie An us. 8 Am ss Maii]i.i-a, Hayward, t the Colonies.i-co, U mmii ColumUia, lK>b«on, fiom San Fram ,iiy, December M, Ootid llns kINNIA In WRIGHT li Siran* Dalny Voatok, Krck-son, fm s.ui Francisco, Killliey to Miss Mollie M Wright, Vfaaa Jose, tal. 1' S trans Warren, Mail, from "an FraJtCWCO. >) I' BRYANT At ihe M.ih,„list Church, thli Am hk Martha Davis, McAllum. fiom Son Francisco, SKH>HAR city, by the Rev, (i. 1.. Pearson, Arllnu (i. I lee. M, Mawbk Inamond Head, Ward, from San Fr i*co. Sloddan Miss Edith li Bryant. 10 George, San Fram isco. Morle, Si Maw sh Fort lofr Kureka. Am m h bather liohoe, •.ndeis.n, f LOWRIK AM.K.N At Kahiiliii, Maui, l)e, :«, hy the bk Coryphenc, iick»on,from Na« aimo. Rev. l-.ii. Bcckwhh, Walter A. Lowrie to Missßlamh Am Aii sli ( < nl.iima I, I 'In isi i:t list m, In.in San Kran, i>< <>. II E. Allen. from Newcaal Walls, sli Star of c. Fiance, i:i Maw I'.r ss Carlisle City, Akken, fr m San Diego. DEATHS. \. S Ir ins Sherman, limn San Franctaco. 14 Br bk Oulf Stream, ICerhyaon, from Newcastle. |6 Am si h Kihel Vane, Holmstrom, f i Port I'ownsend. LUCK AtColwyn Lay, North Wales, Ncassnabarf, Klira I'tesioti Luce, willow of the late <-. H. Luce,age4S, V s trans Centennial, Kagfo*, from San Fram m o. years, Aii bktne Irmgard, Schmidt, t San Fram is... 17 \m rjftae W» I I- win, Williams, from San I'i. mis,... lIAI sl.l H In Si. Haul, Minn., November 11, Mrs. 1.. s, Port Towtueod. Lcwvrs, -oodman, \m h Robert < fm Hauslcr, aged SB, beloved mother of Mis. 1,. K. Alvaicv, is Jap s-, Nanya Mam, Tomita, from Kobe. of this rrty. 10 I'.r lAorangi, Hepworth, from the Colonies, At ih' ..linens Hospital, this (ity, lie, i:i, ENGLISH KrU Coptic, Kin vr. from San FrancUco. o, Henry English, a well known resident, Ibrsssr y rnralng San Fram ■iii Am ss Australia, Lawless, fi I.v 4, interests in Panning Island, aged nearly hV years. V 5 trans Victoria, Pamon, from San Franoiaco. HASSINGKK In this city, Dae la. alter a long dege ,f It— Br as Gaelic, Finch, from Voltottama* lever, Jilin A Hssmngsr. jr., aged '-'1 years. Am sli Xi :lips«, Peterson, f Newcastle. Bay. ure HITCHCOCK At Hilo. Dec. ID, David Howard Hitch. Am sh Charm r, Maui, from l»- part ~„ k, Am s. h Vme, Small, from San Fram is. ST., In in in Honolulu May 21, 18.'!'.'. Haw l.k Andrew Welrh, I hew, from s.ui Francisco. BAILEY \t Waih.kti. Maui, Dec. It, HaMls 11. Ballsy Am sch li.insit, Jorgenscn, from San Francisco. Oil esses, of Makawao, after a long illness, Am s, h Winsiow, I tii kholm, from Tat <»ma. CHRISTTAN-Al the Quean's Hospital, this city, Dae. St, Am sh Sinlram, Larst-n, from la.,mia. ul Yokohama. srabnsl Christian, Itsmofrluuxß, Capt. A. sgsrj aliout 00 BrssAlgos, Hiuwborough, from years. It—Get .sh II F Glade, Haestop, from Hit-men. 'J .rr 11 • . ' ■ .. t �THE FRIEND 7 Vol. 58, No. I.] Mr. Price is having good success in deep and heartfelt appreciation of the raising missionary funds for the "ad rare spirit of Christian consecration and HONOLULU. 11. I. devotion, which so conspicuously characvance movement." Key. L. K. Kakani is helping Mr. terized his life and rendered him a most This SSgSJ is (leveled lo the. inlercsls of Ihe Hawaiian valued missionary. In every department Hoard of Missions, and the Kdin.i, appointed hy the Gulick edit the Hoahana. of the work of this Board he was efficient Hoard, is respousihle for its content*.. The island of Guam is now open to and most helpful, but in no sphere was Christian woik. Regular Sunday ser- he more so than in that of the work Editor. vices are observed the barracks. Mr. for the native Hawaiians. Coming to Rev. 0. P. Emerson, in Kelton, the officer in charge of the U. ihese islands at a time when the misThe North Pacific Missionary Insti- S. Marine Corps, is a Christian gentle- sionary fathers were passing off the tute has met with a severe loss in the man accustomed to Y. M. C. A. stage he assumed the work that they death of one of its students, Mr. Hiram methods and is willing to lend his were laying clown and, so far as possible, Kawahele, who died of pnoumonia at the influence to any enterprise conducted perpetuated their services and conserved Queen's Hospital on December l>nli. in the interests of the people and look- the fruit of their labors. With but a few Mr. Kawahele was a student for some ing towards a larger intelligence and a exceptions the whole circle of the Hawai years in the Malumalu School on Kauai. purer life, and in this we are sure he ian pastors of to day have enjoyed the On the closing of that institution, has the sympathy of both the Governor benefit of a longer or shorter connection although but 10 years old, he came to and our friend the Lieutenant Governor with the training school which was orthe Institute to prepare himself for the of the island. The natives are said to ganized and led by himself under the work of preaching the Gospel to his be an interesting and tractable people." name of the North Pacific Missionary people—a work to which he had given four hundred children are in sight and Institute. With many cf the leading himself some years before. He was a could easily be gathered into mission men he maintained a constant coryoung man gentlemanly in his bearing, schools if theie were any one to teach respondence through his life, and none of them cane under his influence withcareful in his personal habits, and faith them. ful in the performance of his duties. His of Mrs. Logan occured out receiving permanent benefit. "The death relations with his fellow-students and on the evening of December Ist at the In the local associations of this island, his teachers were most cordial, and, by home of her sister, Mrs. Dr. Baiid of and especially in the annual associations all who knew him intimately, he was Creston, Ohio. Mrs. Logan had a representative of the Hawaiian churches considered one of the most promising surgical operation at the hospital in of the group, his presence was felt and among the young men of the school. Buffalo, and as soon as possible came his mature judgment had great weight. From a human point of view in these thence eastward to be present at the In all the Christian work for the diftimes, when consecrated young men are marriage of her son Arthur to Alice ferent nationalities in our midst he bore greatly needed to fill the ranks of the Price, and seemed very feeble. She a leading part both as an initiatorof new Hawaiian ministry, such a loss seems came from Providence, K. 1., to Boston and beneficial enterprises, and as a wise almost irreparable. We cannot tell, hoping that she could go on without counsellor and sympathetic friend, however, the outcome of a life even as much delay to her sister in Ohio, but Resolved, that we hereby express our brief as his. We may hope that the when she arrived she was so feeble that deepest sympathy with the members of influence of his life may be felt by other it seemed imperative for her to go ii to the family circle of our departed brother, young men, and that they may be in- a hospital for a time, and for three and especially with her who has been spired to fill even more full the place left weeks or so she was in a private his faithful and devoted companion and vacant by his early removal from this hospital near my home in Koxbury, zealous co-worker in every department world. under the best of medical care and in of missionary undertaking. Resolved, that these resolutions beenthe hands of a very competent nurse. Hiram T. Kanahele died at the Queen Nothing, however, stemed to give her tered upon the minutes, and that a copy hospital, December 18th, atler a brief permanent relief, although she gained be forwarded to the widow and the illness of eight days. Ilis complaint somewhat in strength. As soon as it family. was typhoid fever, the second case of was possible she went to Ohio, Arthur an rpibodb or riii': delegation's the kind among the students of the N. accompanying her, and for the last five TRAVELS. We greatly grieve weeks was at the home of her sister. P. M. Institute. at the loss of this bright and interesting Dr. Baird, her sister's husband, gave "Permit me to introduce to you our young man, who came to the Institute her all needed medical care, and when latest acquired and newly acknowledged from Malumalu school and the careful her symptoms grew very unfav rafale he countrymen." This was said to a tutelage of Miss Alexander. called in wise counsel from Cleveland. young lady, probably a boarding school girl, who sat by my side at a table in a Mr. Durao has removed from Kona But it was too late for the best skill dining car of the Northwestern Railroad command to that could physicians field for to him to Kohala, as the better and whose wondering eyes were alterrender her service. examinaAn any occupy as things are at present. He Desha and Kauhane finds it of great advantage to be near tion after death showed that the disease nately fixed on her, as they laughed who sat suffered had opposite with which she already Mr. Austin whose enthusiasm is contaand exchanged jokes together in form and malignant nothing assumed a counsels and whose sympathetic gious could have saved her life even had all Hawaiian. are a source of comfort and strength. "0! are you from Hawaii ? I am so the conditions been perfectly known." The Board has voted to ask Mr. From a letter from Dr. Smith to Dr. glad to know it, for I have just come with my aunt from a visit to the expoRichards to proceed to carry out his Bingham. proposition of publishing an edition of RESOLUTIONS PASSII) BY THE HOARD ON sition in Omaha and you can tell me if Hawaiian women are really like 2,500 copies of a Hawaiian Hymn and THF. MATH OF DR. HYDE. those hula girls we saw there. My Tune Book of 300 pages, the same to Whereas God in His all-wise pro- aunt and I did not like them—the be electrotyped. The expttctation is vidence has removed from the activities of exhibition they made of themselves was that the best Hawaiian hymns in use this life our honored and beloved brother not a nice one, we thought." And then with much new will be incoporated Key. Dr. Charles McEwen it was that Desha opened the batteries matter. Thus the services of the Ha- and co-worker of his wrath and spoke: waiian churches will be greatly bene- Hyde, D. D :— Resolved, that we hereby express our "Please tell your aunt that those iitted. HAWAIIAN BOAKB. - " �poor hula girls do not represent Hawaiian women. They are in the hands of scheming men who are after money and who do not care for the reputation of my people. My mother was a Hawaiian woman and they are not like that—tell all your people wherever you go that they are not like that." And we were glad that at least in one mind the false impressions given by the Hawaiian exhibit at Omaha could be eradicated, and that in place of the memory of hula girls there might be the rememberance of courteous, dignified and refined gentlemen, whose lives were given to better things. THE RESOLUTIONS WERE FOLLOWING PASSED BY THE BOARD AT ITS LAST MEETING. Whereas we are informed that the condition of the present Morning Star is such that the American Board is seriously considering the question of building a new vessel to take the place of the present one, and, in view of the call for an advance movement, a vessel capable of doing much more work; and whereas Rev. F. M. Price of the Ruk Mission, is at present, with the approval of the American Board, earnestly calling the atten tion of Christians in the United States and these islands to the duty of an advance movement with reference to giving the gospel to every inhabited island in Micronesia without further delay, and whereas the inhabitants of the western portion of the Caroline Islands have been waiting for a pure Gospel for nearly fifty years since Protestant missionaries first landed on Ponape and Kusaie, but should be allowed to wait no longer, and in view of the very recei t Macedonian cry from our brother Joe Castino on Guam "to come over and help him," to say nothing of the call of Mr. Ko of het same island to this Board, therefore; Resolved, that in the judgement of this Board, it is high time that Christians in these Hawaiian Islands arouse themselves to respond to these calls for aid in giving the Gospel to all the inhabitants of Micronesia; and that it is our duty and privilege to cooperate cordialiy, now, with the American Board in any effort which they may make to go forward in this matter. Second: Resolved, that we do therefore assent to the proposal made by Mr. Price to Sec. Emerson, that the Hawaiian Board recommend to their patrons the taking of two hundred shares in the advauce movement, such shares being pledges for ten dollars each, to be paid annually to the American Board through the Hawaiian Board, for the next five years toward the support of Missionaries of the American Board and their work in the Ladrone and Western Caroline Islands; in case will be taken up without dc- First. Janury, 1900 THE FRIEND. 8 lay, and this with the understanding that such shares shall be over and above the usual contributions to our Board. Third : Resolved, that in case the American Board should decide to build such a vessel as is contemplated, and in view of the question which has been put to us by Dr. Smith in his letter of Nov. 7, 1899, as to what we think would be done in the Hawaiian Islands toward a new vessel, on the supposition that the American Board should decide in favor of a steam craft with a speed of ten knots an hour, to do all the work except what the Hiram Bingham is doing; we recommend to our patrons, including the Sabbath schools in these islands that they contribute $2500 toward building such a new Morning Star, that is, one capable of extending her annual voyages to Guam and Yap, it being understood that on this latter island two native Hawaiian missionaries and their wives may be placed, to co-operate with the proposed American mission there, as has been done and is, in the Gilbert Islands; and we do the more gladly and earnestly make this reccommendation in view of the fact that so large a majority of the patrons of this Board present at the foreign mission-rally of June 11, 1899, in response to our inquiry, did, by their mode of making their contributions on that occasion, signify to us that they were cordially in favor of an onward movement to Mindanao, and in view also of the intelligence which comes to us in Mr. Price's letter of Nov. 20 that, so far as missionary comity or amenity is concerned, we need not hesitate to enter Mindanao as soon as the door shall be opened, as the Presbyterian Board—who have already entered Luzon —have bidden us God-speed in work for the southern islands of the Philippine group. In behalf of the Committee, Hiram Bingham, Chairman. Sachs' New Building. Projected New Hotel. A company is being organized with a capital of $250,000, to build a six-story hotel with 200 bedrooms. It is to be on Kapiolani street, between Beritania and Young streets, and facing the beautiful Thomas Square. This is one of the prettiest residence sections of the city, about one mile from the post-office, and in the thick of the tram-car lines. Elevators, broad verandahs, and spacious sixth story dining rooms, are features of the establishment; also a tropical garden court in the interior of the building. The recent rapid growth of the city and its commerce justifies this enterprise. Hackfeld Building. The old firm of Hackfeld & Co. have begun the erection of a splendid building, which occupies their entire 208 feet of frontage on Fort street, extending back 112 feet on Fort and 101 on Halekauwila street. The building is of three stories, 60 feet in height to the roof, and 90 feet to the top of the dome. The material will be the blue Oahu lava. The front view has been published of a three-story hotel, over 200 feet long, of elegant style, which Mr. Desky proposes to erect on the upper end of Pacific Heights. It will be a most conspicuous object at the height of 750 feet, and only two miles from the post office. It will be reached by rapid motor cars. It ought to compete strongly with the Waialua and Waikiki resorts, as it has a cool mountain climate and a glorious land and ocean prospect. The new sewers are laid throughout all the present streets of Chinatown, but cannot be used until the sewage works at Kakaako shall be completed, several months hence. Ordinances are needed to forbid crowding, not only inside of Chinatown, but on its outskirts in the extensive new barracks on River and Kukui streets. N. S. Sachs is about lo erect a handsome three-story building on the north England has shipped 8000 mules from corner of Fort and Beritania streets. It New Orleans to South Africa, and is faced with pressed yellow brick will be 10,000 more. War is costly in buying and terra-cotta trimmings. There will be one large store on the corner, besides very many ways. two on Fort street and three on Beritania. In the upper stores will be eighty rooms, with full equipment of toilet and bath rooms. By the removal of the present buildings Beritania street will be widened Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. fourteen feet and Fort street seventeen. ESTABLISHED IN 1858' BISHOP &CO. Fort street is fast growing to be a handsome city street of first class edifices and store fronts. E. O. Hall & Son have temporarily removed a few doors away in order to allow a much larger building to be erected on their old corner of King and Fort. Transact a general Hanking and Exchange business. Loans made on approved security Bills discounted, Commercial credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check. Letters ol credit issued on the princpal cities of the world. /W Agents of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance.Co. tA � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1900) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1900.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900.01